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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. About what does Maurice worry?
2. What is one thing Ben dreads when young?
3. What do Ben and Petra discover when they pull down the covers on Jakob's bed?
4. About what did Ben have nightmares?
5. For how long does Ben search for Jakob's journals?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Jakob "win" Naomi's heart?
2. What does Michaela say about her parents and the pioneer museum?
3. How does Ben's relationship with Petra evolve?
4. What does Ben find in Jakob's study?
5. How are Jakob's initial days in Greece?
6. What impact does being in Idhra have on Jakob?
7. How are Ben's parents described?
8. How does Ben find Jakob's study?
9. What does Ben say about lightning?
10. How does Jakob relate a theory by Einstein to the Holocaust?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Often, authors will write about "what they know," and sometimes knowing a little about the author makes the books more interesting. Discuss the following:
1. Research and give a brief biographical sketch of Anne Michaels.
2. What in Michaels' background may have helped her in writing "Fugitive Pieces"? What may have influenced the way he depicts various characters and scenes?
3. Do you think there is always some of the author's own life in his/her novels? Why or why not? Give examples.
Essay Topic 2
Discuss one of the following:
1. Thoroughly analyze how the setting informs the plot in "Fugitive Pieces".
2. Trace and analyze one major theme of the book. How is the theme represented by symbolism? By the characters' behaviors? By the action?
3. Trace and analyze two secondary themes of "Fugitive Pieces". How are the themes represented by symbolism? By the characters' behaviors? By the action?
Essay Topic 3
Jakob emphasizes that he does not see the horrors that visit European Jewry during World War II while he is living in Greece. He endures hardships on Zakynthos and lives in constant fear of the door being bashed in, as had happened in his home in Poland. All of Zakynthos's Jews are saved from the Nazis through the courage of the Christian mayor and archbishop. By comparison, most of the Jews on nearby Corfu perish by drowning or in concentration camps.
1. Discuss what affect the constant fear with which Jakob lives would have on a young boy. Use examples from your own life and "Fugitive Pieces" to support your answer.
2. Discuss reasons you think some people like the mayor and Bishop tried to help the Jewish people and others did not. Use examples from your own life and "Fugitive Pieces" to support your answer.
3. Discuss, in depth, the concept of courage as it relates to the mayor and the archbishop. Use examples from your own life and "Fugitive Pieces" to support your answer.
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